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-rw-r--r--chapter06/gcc.xml8
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diff --git a/chapter06/bison.xml b/chapter06/bison.xml
index 79f556d66..31e9570fb 100644
--- a/chapter06/bison.xml
+++ b/chapter06/bison.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@
<para>There is a circular dependency between bison and flex with regard to
the checks. If desired, after installing flex in the next section, the
- bison checks can be run with <command>make check</command>.</para>
+ bison checks can be run with <command>make check</command>. Three
+ tests related to lalr1.cc fail for unknown reasons.</para>
<para>Install the package:</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/gcc.xml b/chapter06/gcc.xml
index b8fa2a327..289885a72 100644
--- a/chapter06/gcc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gcc.xml
@@ -131,6 +131,14 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
Unless the test results are vastly different from those at the above URL,
it is safe to continue.</para>
+ <note><para>
+ On some combinations of kernel configuration and AMD processors
+ there may be more than 1100 failures in the gcc.target/i386/mpx
+ tests (which are designed to test the MPX option on recent
+ Intel processors). These can safely be ignored on AMD
+ processors.
+ </para></note>
+
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>